Fernvale Court’s September 2005 history begins with an offer of 500 homes: 128 three-room and 372 four-room flats in a contemporary newspaper account. The report places the project at Sengkang West Avenue and Fernvale Link.
The account also says construction depended on sufficient bookings. That condition is part of the historical story; an announcement of flats for sale was not the same event as a confirmed completion.
This guide explains the launch, shows how to read its numbers and offers a practical family exercise in turning a short source into a clear timeline. It does not use old prices or booking terms as current housing advice.
eduKateSengkang • Neighbourhood history and learning
Choose your reading route
Read the historical record, understand the distinction that matters, or follow the worked learning activity.
1. The launch account and its limits
2. What the construction condition means
3. Worked example: count, proportion and category
Contents
Four connected chapters
1. The launch account and its limits
2. What the construction condition means
The report dated 28 September 2005 describes Fernvale Court between the Fernvale and Layar LRT stations. It is available in a third-party forum reproduction; the newspaper issue can also be located through NewspaperSG.
The account describes the offer and its conditions at that time. Its references to nearby amenities belong to that date, not to a live directory of the neighbourhood today.
An accessible reproduction is useful, but provenance still matters. A student should name the original report and date, then acknowledge the host through which the text was read.
That is a stronger method than copying a paragraph without recording where it came from. It also makes later checking possible if a source is corrected or a better original becomes available.
The report described proceeding when most flats were booked, giving approximately 70% as the contemporary benchmark. This article treats that as historical wording, not a statement of the rules for a present-day application.
A condition links two events: an action depends on something else happening. Removing the dependency can change the meaning even when the remaining words are individually accurate.
Consider an invented school example: “The club will run the trip if enough students register.” That is not equivalent to “The trip has taken place.” Registration, confirmation and departure are different milestones.
Apply the same care to a housing source. Identify the offer, the stated condition and the later outcome separately. A later record is needed to establish what happened after the announcement.
The reported categories total 500: 128 + 372. The three-room share is 128 ÷ 500 = 0.256, or 25.6%. The four-room share is 74.4%.
A useful comparison is that the four-room category exceeds the three-room category by 244 flats. That is a difference in counts, while 74.4% is a share of the whole.
Ask a child to explain both statements aloud. Then ask what neither establishes: the number of residents, the age of households or the way the homes were furnished.
The checking habit is simple. Write the unit after every figure. “244 flats” is a more informative answer than an unexplained “244”, especially when several kinds of numbers appear in the same paragraph.
Draw four spaces labelled offer, booking decision, construction and occupation. Fill only the spaces supported by the records you have.
Leaving a space unfilled is not a research failure. It tells you which question remains open and prevents a launch date from being stretched into an unsupported completion date.
For a local walk, use current maps and signs. Stay in permitted common areas and observe how paths connect destinations rather than treating residential corridors as exhibition space.
FAQ: Is Fernvale Court the same as Fernvale Grove? No; keep the names and source entries separate. Can the 2005 report establish today’s shops or access arrangements? No; those require current information.
A good family history project can be short. One accurate timeline, one labelled calculation and one dated observation are more valuable than a long account filled with guessed details.
Sources and evidence limits
Sources checked on 19 October 2026. Source types are identified below. Historical launch entries, news reports and reproduced correspondence do not establish present access, current application rules or every block’s actual completion date.
28 September 2005 report by Goh Chin Lian — third-party reproduction
NewspaperSG: The Straits Times issue dated 28 September 2005
The featured classroom photograph illustrates eduKate’s learning context; it is not a photograph of the location discussed.
